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How Using Virtual Reality Helps to Make Real-World Roads Safer

Friday, August 2nd, 2019
Making changes to roadways can be a controversial issue. Seemingly a simple matter, adding a traffic light or changing a traffic pattern can raise many questions in the impacted community. So when the North Jersey Transit Planning Authority (NJTPA) recommended replacing a few traffic lights and sto...

Creating an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: NJIT Invests in Faculty and Student Startups

Thursday, August 1st, 2019
Last year, a vision therapy device invented at NJIT with potential as a biomarker for concussion was recognized as “most innovative breakthrough” at the Augmented World Expo Europe. Despite the international accolade, getting VERVE (Virtual Eye Rotation Vision Exercises) out of the lab and into the ...

Voice Summit 2019: World of VOICE Technology Returns to NJIT 

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
“The Largest Voice Tech Event of the Year.” That was the official event billing that stirred a groundswell of attention from technology leaders and innovators, global brands and thousands more at the 2019 VOICE Summit held July 22-25 at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).  Nearly doubl...

An NJIT-based Vision Therapy Startup Secures Major Backing from NJ Health Foundation's Venture Arm

Monday, July 29th, 2019
A campus-based health care startup with a device that employs virtual reality gaming to correct a vision dysfunction – technology designed and developed by a professor and a team of students, now alumni, in a biomedical engineering lab at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) – has received a $5...

Pre-College 40th Anniversary Alumni Profile: Naomi Adjei Is a Resident Physician

Friday, July 26th, 2019
It’s a Thursday morning and Naomi Adjei is a bit tired, having recently finished another 13-hour shift as an obstetrics and gynecology resident at Yale New Haven Hospital. “It’s hard!” she said with a laugh. “The hours are hard. … [But] I’m learning clinical skills. I’m learning surgical skills. … Y...

Using Data Analytics to Track and Treat Drug Abuse

Thursday, July 25th, 2019
The underground culture of hardcore drug abuse is dynamic and evolves rapidly. Street names for drugs, hot spots where users go for their fix, and new, dangerous strains laced with different substances change frequently and regularly.  For nonprofits aiming to help users overcome their addicti...

David Isbitski '98, Chief Evangelist for Amazon Alexa, on the Power of Voice

Monday, July 22nd, 2019
Four years ago, David Isbitski ’98 was the first person hired by Amazon for its newly created Alexa skills kit group. Today – tens of thousands of skills later – he is the voice-activated technology’s chief evangelist, and one of the keynote speakers at the VOICE 2019 Conference. Held on NJIT’s camp...

Center for Pre-College Programs at NJIT Celebrates the Big 4-0!

Friday, July 19th, 2019
This year marks four decades of NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) providing STEM education and college preparedness to rising fourth- through 11th-grade students in New Jersey. With NJIT Chemical Engineering Professor Emeritus Howard Kimmel as a lead figure in its development, CPCP was f...

NJIT Set to Host VOICE Summit 2019 — "World's Largest Voice Tech Event"

Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
Newark, NJ -- From July 22 - 25, 2019, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will welcome VOICE Summit 2019 — “the world’s largest voice tech conference.”  VOICE will be held for the second consecutive year at NJIT, drawing a roster of internationally recognized brands from around the worl...

NJIT's Dean Kevin Belfield Named Fellow of the American Chemical Society

Monday, July 15th, 2019
Kevin Belfield, dean of NJIT’s College of Science and Liberal Arts, has earned the exclusive honor of being elected fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society. With the ACS’s announcement, published in the July 15 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ...